Molopophorus crooki

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MolopophorusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Nassariidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Nassariidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Nassariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Molopophorus crooki on record, most of them in the Eocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
1 occurrences- Eocene100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Molopophorus crooki has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Molopophorus crooki and its relatives
EoceneWhere Molopophorus crooki and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
48 taxa- Ameranella kewi1 site
- Benoistia californica1 site
- Calorebama dilleri kirbyi1 site
- Cantharus (Calicantharus) californicus1 site
- Cantharus (Endopachychilus) suturalis1 site
- Cantharus (Eocantharus) cowlitzensis1 site
- Conus (Hemiconus) aegilops1 site
- Corbicula arnoldi1 site
- Corbicula oldroydi1 site
- Corbula (Caryocorbula) dickersoni1 site
- Crassatella weaveri1 site
- Elimia1 site
- Elimia dickersoni1 site
- Elimia schencki1 site
- Glossaulax reclusiana1 site
- Glycymeris (Glycymeris) eocenica1 site
- Glycymeris (Glycymerita) sagittata1 site
- Here hannai1 site
- Latirus kirbyi1 site
- Mactromeris markleyensis1 site
- Melanatria markleyensis1 site
- Molopophorus cretaceus1 site
- Myadesma eocenica1 site
- Myrtea (Myrtea) taffana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Molopophorus crooki, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Molopophorus crooki
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Molopophorus crooki was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMolopophorus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Clark 1938